My favorite time-lapse video is of Lotte growing up. Her father shot her every day and made two versions: Birth to 12 Years and 0 to 14 years. This is under my life list: Things I Would Do If I Could Do It Over Again. I think I was just too brain-dead when I was…
My son and I have been enjoying The Kid Should See This curated videos. We picked out four of our favorites after watching several dozen. What do we have today? Bach played like you’ve never heard it — by whacking plastic tubes The Guinness World Record for the largest popsicle stick chain reaction Freeline skate…
Censorship makes me angry (but many things do) and it tends to make me go on the offensive. Instead of my diatribe, I found some words of wisdom by authors on how to handle censorship. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Most of the censorship I see is fear-driven. I…
This collection of picture books shows some of the many ways people have immigrated in recent times to a new country including the United States. I have chapter books on immigration at the turn of the century that our 4th grade uses and a book list of undocumented immigrants if you want to explore this theme…
PickyKidPix helped me organize my children’s books a few years ago. We made a special sticker designation for our collection of Roald Dahl books. She loved Dahl when she was in third grade and she read nearly exclusively from his books for that entire year. Grasshopper and Sensei also read quite a few Roald Dahl books,…
It’s not easy when your best friend moves away. I found three picture books that might help a child in this dilemma, but I’d love to add more books to this list. What am I missing? Thanks for your help! 12 Books for Kids When Their Best Friend Moves Away The Together Treehouse by…
On August 6, seventy years ago, the United States detonated atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending WWII. Without those bombs, the war with Japan would have dragged on and on. The Japanese would have fought for as long as they could hold out … for their country, for their family honor, for Bushido. It’s…